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Legends

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Legends

Paper book: €17.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1861
Bilingual edition
October 22, 2026
Pages
188
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Horror, Fantasy
Moods
Get the chills, Be enchanted, Savour the writing, Travel back in time
Translated from
Spanish

Book summary

In the Spain of old legends, a hunter finds a woman with green eyes beside a hidden spring. A young poet runs through the night after an unknown woman who may be nothing but a moonbeam. Elsewhere, a blind organist plays music that lives on after death.

This collection brings together six of these tales, somewhere between dream and shiver. Bécquer, a great poet of Spanish Romanticism, tells them as if by the fireside, in a simple, musical style.

Each tale is short and can be read in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

A Blue Ribbon Lost on the Night of the Dead. In Soria, Spain, it is the evening of All Saints’ Day. Alonso, a young hunter who fears nothing, gives a jewel to his beautiful cousin Beatriz. She meant to leave him her…

The world of the book

Old Towns of Spain. Several of these legends are set in Soria, an old Castilian town on the Douro River, among ruined convents and forested mountains. Another is set in Seville, in southern Spain. In one of them, the…

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